The army and malice of Gog.

Before CHRIST cir. 587.

2 Or,conceive

a mischiev

ous purpose. Jer. 49. 31. s ver. 8.

8 Or, confidently.

4 Heb. To spoil the

spoil, and

to prey the prey.

ch. 29. 19.

t ch. 36. 34, 35.

u ver. 8.

5 Heb. navel. Judg. 9. 37. x.ch. 27. 22, 23.

y ch. 27. 15, 20.

mind, and thou shalt 2 think an evil

thought:

11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell 3 safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,

124 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, "and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the 5 midst of the land.

13 Sheba, and y Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?

14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, a See ch. 19. shalt thou not know it?

z ch. 27. 12.

3,5.

b Is. 4. 1. c ver. 8.

d ch. 39. 2. e ver. 6. f ver. 9. g ver. 8.

h Ex. 14. 4.

39. 21.

15 d And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:

16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen ch. 36. 23. & may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes. 17 Thus saith the Lord GoD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old 6 Heb. by the time 6 by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?

hands.

i ch. 36. 5, 6. & 39. 25. k Ps. 89. 46. 7 Hag. 2.6, 7, Rev. 16. 18.

m Hos. 4. 3.

n Jer. 4. 24. Nah. 1. 5, 6. 7 Or,towers,

or, stairs.

o Ps. 105. 16. p ch. 14. 17. q Judg. 7.22. 1 Sam. 14.20. 2 Chr. 20. 23.

Is. 66. 16. Jer. 25. 31. 8 ch. 5. 17. t Ps. 11. 6. Is. 29. 6. & 30. 30.

u ch. 13. 11. Rev. 16. 21.

a ch. 36. 23. y Ps. 9. 16. ch. 37. 28. & 39. 7. ver. 16.

18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.

19 For in my jealousy k and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;

20 So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, " and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the 7 steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. 21 And I will call for P a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord God: fevery man's sword shall be against his brother.

22 And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and "great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. 23 Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD.

CHAPTER XXXIX. 1 God's judgment upon Gog. 8 Israel's victory. 11 Gog's burial in Hamon-gog. 17 The feast of the fowls. 23 Israel, having been plagued for their sins, shall be gathered again with eternal favour.

God's judgment upon Gog.

THEREFORE, a thou son of man,

prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal :

2 And I will turn thee back, and 2 leave but the sixth part of thee, band will cause thee to come up from 3 the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel: 3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.

4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: dĺ3 will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every 4 sort, and to the beasts of the field 5 to be devoured.

5 Thou shalt fall upon 6 the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.

6e And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

78 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them h pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.

Before CHRIST cir. 587.

a ch. 38. 2,3.

2 Or, strike

thee with six

plagues; or,

draw thee hook of six back with an teeth, as ch.

38. 4.

b ch. 38. 15.

Heb. the sides of the north.

c ch. 39. 21. ver. 17.

d ch. 33. 27.

4 Heb.'wing. 5 Heb. to

devour.

6 Heb. the face of the field.

e ch. 38. 22.

Amos 1. 4. 7 Or, confidently. f Ps. 72. 10.

g ver. 22.

h Lev. 18. 21. ch. 20. 39.

8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken. 19 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and ch. 38. 16, the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall 9 burn them with fire seven years:

10 So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: " and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.

23.

k Rev. 16. 17. & 21. 6.

ch. 38. 17. 8 Or, javelins.

9 Or, make a fire of them.

m Is. 14. 2.

11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the 2 noses "Or,mouths. of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of 3 Hamon-gog.

12 And seven months shall the house

of Israel be burying of them, " that they may cleanse the land.

13 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.

14 And they shall sever out 4 men of continual employment, passingthrough the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, P to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.

15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamon-gog.

16 And also the name of the city shall be 6 Hamonah. Thus shall they 9 cleanse the land.

17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; " Speak 7 unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Ássemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my 8 sacrifice that I

The gates of the temple.

Before CHRIST 574.

thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.

22 And their windows, and their arches, and their palm trees, were after the measure of the gate that looketh toward the east; and they went up unto it by seven steps; and the arches thereof were before them.

23 And the gate of the inner court was over against the gate toward the north, and toward the east; and he measured from gate to gate an hundred cubits.

24 After that he brought me toward the south, and behold a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the arches thereof according to these measures.

25 And there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.

26 And there were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches thereof were before them and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, upon the posts thereof.

The eight tables.

burnt offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering.

40 And at the side without, 2 as one goeth up to the entry of the north gate, were two tables; and on the other side, which was at the porch of the gate, were two tables.

41 Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they slew their sacrifices.

42 And the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt offering, of a cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an half broad, and one cubit high: whereupon also they laid the instruments wherewith they slew the burnt offering and the sacrifice.

43 And within were 3 hooks, an hand broad, fastened round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering. 44 And without the inner gate were the chambers of the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate; and their prospect was toward the south: one at the side of the cast gate having the prospect toward the north.

28 And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he mea sured the south gate according to these

measures;

29 And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, according to these measures: and there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad,

30 And the arches round about were p five and twenty cubits long, and five cubits 2 broad,

31 And the arches thereof were toward the utter court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof and the going up to it had eight steps.

32 And he brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he measured the gate according to these

measures.

33 And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, were according to these measures and there were windows therein

46 And the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, "the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi, which come near to the LORD to minister unto him.

47 So he measured the court, an hundred cubits long, and an hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar that was before the house.

48 And he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side.

Before CHRIST 574.

Lov. 4. 2,3.

r Lev. 5. 6. & 6. 6. & 7. 1.

2 Or, at the step.

3 Or, endirons, or, the

two hearthstones.

s1 Chr. 6. 81.

Lev. 8. 35. Num. 3. 27,

28, 32, 38. & 18. 5. 1 Chr. 9.23. 2 Chr.

13. 11. Ps.

134. 1.

4 Or, ward, or, ordinance: And so ver. 46. u Num. 18.5.

ch. 44. 15.

1 Kings 2. 35. ch. 43.19. & 44. 15, 18.

49 The length of the porch was y1 Kings 6.3. twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; and he brought me by the steps whereby they went up to it: and there were pillars by the posts, one on this 1 Kings 7. side, and another on that side. CHAPTER XLI.

The measures, parts, chambers, and ornaments of the temple.

it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.

34 And the arches thereof were toward the outward court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the going up to it had eight steps.

35 And he brought me to the north gate, and measured it according to these measures;

36 The little chambers thereof, the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, and the windows to it round about: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.

37 And the posts thereof were toward the utter court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the going up to it had eight steps.

38 And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt offering.

39 And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the

the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tabernacle.

21.

5 Or, en

2 And the breadth of the 5 door was ten cubits; and the sides of the door trance. were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured the length thereof, forty cubits: and the breadth, twenty cubits. 3 Then went he inward, and measured the post of the door, two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven cubits.

4 So a he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said unto me, This is the most holy place.

5 After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth, of every side chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side.

6 bAnd the side chambers were three,

a 1 Kings 6. 20. 2 Chr.

3. 8.

1 Kings 6.

The measures, parts, chambers,

chambers round about, that they might 2 have hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house.

7 And 3 there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst.

8 I saw also the height of the house round about the foundations of the side chambers were da full reed of six great cubits.

9 The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chamber without, was five cubits: and that which was left

and ornaments of the temple.

24 And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other door.

25 And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubims and palm trees, like as were made upon the walls; and there were thick planks upon the face of the porch without.

26 And there were "narrow windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and upon the side chambers of the house, and thick planks.

CHAPTER XLII.

The chambers for the priests. 13 The use thereof. 19 The measures of the outward court.

were

10 And between the chambers teas the wideness of twenty cubits round about the house on every side.

11 And the doors of the side chambers were toward the place that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round about.

12 Now the building that was before the separate place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits.

13 So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long;

14 Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, an hundred cubits.

15 And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place which was behind it, and the galleries thereof on the one side and on the other side, an hundred cubits, with the inner temple, and the porches of the court;

16 The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood round about,

and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;

17 To that above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and by all the wall round about within and without, by measure.

Is And it was made with cherubims and palm trees, so that a palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub had two faces:

19 So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side: if as made through all the house round about.

20 From the ground unto above the door were cherubims and palm trees made, and on the wall of the temple.

21 The posts of the temple were squared, and the face of the sanctuary; the appearance of the one as the ap pearance of the other.

22 The altar of wood was three enbits high, and the length thereof two cubits and the corners thereof, and the length thereof, and the walls thereof, were of wood and he said un. to the. This the table that & before the Lord,

234 And the temple and the sanctu ary had two doors,

Before CHRIST 574.

m ch. 40, 16. ver. 16.

utter court, the way toward the north and he brought me into the a eh. 41. 12, chamber that was over against the 15. separate place, and which was before the building toward the north.

2 Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.

3 Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the utter court, was b gallery against bch. 41. 16. gallery in three stories.

4 And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.

5 Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries 2 were higher than these, 3 than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.

6 For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.

7 And the wall that was without over against the chambers, toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.

8 For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits.

9 And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goeth into them from the utter

court.

10 The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, over against the separate place, and over against the building.

11 And the way before them was like the appearance of the chambers which were toward the north, as long as they, and as broad as they: and all their goings out were both accord. ing to their fashions, and according to their doors.

2 Or, did eat of these.

3 Or, and the building consisted of the lower and the middiemost.

4 Or, from the place. Or, he that brought me.

• Or, at he came.

e ver. 1.

12 And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south ira a door in the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one entereth into them. 13 Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south cham. bets, which are before the separated Lov. & 14, place, they be holy chambers, where 25. & 24 the priests that approach unto the Long & shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offer. ing, for the place is holy.

14/ When the priests enter therein,

The return of God's glory.

Before

then shall they not go out of the holy CHRIST place into the utter court, but there 574. they shall lay their garments wherein they minister; for they are holy; and shall put on other garments, and shall approach to those things which are for the people.

15 Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it round about.

16 He measured the east 2 side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about. 17 He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.

18 He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed. 19 He turned about to the west

side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

20 He measured it by the four sides: g it had a wall round about, h five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.

CHAPTER XLIII.

1 The returning of the glory of God into the temple. 7 The sin of Israel hindered God's presence. 10 The prophet exhorteth them to repentance, and observation of the law of the house. 13 The measures, 18 and the ordinances of the altar.

FTERWARD he brought me to the gate, even the gate " that looketh toward the east:

2 b And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east and his voice was like a noise of many waters: d and the earth shined with his glory.

3 And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw 3 when I came to destroy the city and the visions were like the vision that I saw & by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.

4 h And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east.

5 So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house.

6 And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood

n1 Chr. 28. 2. by me. Ps. 99. 5. o Ex. 29. 45.

Ps. 68. 16. & 132. 14. Joel 3. 17. John 1. 14. 2 Cor. 6. 16. p ch. 39. 7.

q Lev. 26.30. Jer. 16. 18. → See2 Kings

16. 14. & 21.
4, 5, 7. ch. 8.

3. & 23. 39.
& 44. 7.
4 Or, for
there was
but a wall
between me
and them.

3 ver. 7.

t ver. 7.

u ch. 40. 4.

5 Or, sum, or, number.

7 And he said unto me, Son of man, m the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel ? no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by 9 the carcases of their kings in their high places.

8 In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, 4 and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.

9 Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever.

10 Thou son of man," shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the 5 pattern.

The ordinances of the altar.

11 And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.

12 This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

Before CHRIST 574.

ach. 40. 2.

y ch. 40. 5. & 41. 8.

13 And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the 2 bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof bosom.

2 Heb.

by the 3 edge thereof round about shall 3 Heb. lip. be a span; and this shall be the higher place of the altar.

14 And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle even to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the breadth one cubit.

15 So the altar shall be four cubits; and from 6 the altar and upward shall be four horns.

16 And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in the four squares thereof.

4 Heb.

Harel, that is,the mountain of God. 5 Heb. Ariel, that is, the

lion of God. Is. 29. 1.

17 And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and his stairs shall look toward the See Ex. 20. east. 26.

18 And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to a sprinkle blood thereon.

19 And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that be of the seed of Zadok, which approach unto me, to minister unto me, saith the Lord GOD, a young bullock for a sin offering.

20 And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon the border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it.

21 Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering, and he d shall burn it in the appointed place of the house, e without the sanctuary,

22 And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bullock.

23 When thou hast made an end of cleansing it, thou shalt offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.

a Lev. 1. 5. b ch. 44. 15.

c Ex. 29. 10, 12. Lev. 8.

14, 15. ch. 45. 18, 19.

d Ex. 29. 14.

e Heb. 13. 11.

24 And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, fand the priests shall cast Lev. 2. 13. sait upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering unto the LORD.

25 5 Seven days shalt thou prepare g Ex. 29. 35 every day a goat for a sin offering: 36. Lev.8.33. they shall also prepare a young bullock, and a ram, out of the flock, without blemish.

26 Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they shall 6 consecrate themselves.

6 Heb. fill their hands.

Ex. 29. 21.